[ZODB-Dev] packaging zodb in eggs.

[Chris McDonough]

On Mar 2, 2006, at 10:48 PM, Gary Poster wrote:

>
> On Mar 2, 2006, at 10:03 PM, Chris McDonough wrote:
>>
>> persistence-3.6.0.egg (which would include persistent and BTrees  
>> modules).
>> zodblib-3.6.0.egg (which would include ZODB and ZODB packages).
>> transaction-3.6.0.egg (which would include only the transaction  
>> package).
>> zconfig-2.3.1.egg (which would include only the ZConfig package).
>> zodb-3.6.0.egg (which might be an empty "dependency" package that  
>> depended on persistence, transaction, zodblib, and zconfig).
>>
>> Anyone care?
>
> First,  "rah rah!".
>
> Second, zodblib seems unlikely to be useful alone, but maybe I'm  
> wrong, and even if I'm right there's precedent for that sort of  
> thing in packaging land, so what the hey.

Well, I'm only an egg, as Michael Valentine would say, so I'm not  
sure what the right thing is.

>
> Third, I'd guess that zodb would contain the stitching for zconfig- 
> to-zodb.  It makes me wonder if a zodb-without-zconfig egg would be  
> feasible/useful, but that's probably for later navel-staring.

Yeah, that'd be good.  It's currently pretty dense in there.

- C